French neuroscientist (born 1943)
Marie-Germaine Bousser |
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![]() Marie-Germaine Bousser in 2024. |
| Born | 11 August 1943 |
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| Nationality | French |
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| Alma mater | Paris-Sorbonne University |
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| Occupation | neuroscientist |
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| Known for | Discovery of CADASIL |
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Marie-Germaine Bousser (born 11 August 1943) is a French neuroscientist. She won the Brain Prize in 2019 for her work on CADASIL.[1]
Biography
Bousser graduated from Paris-Sorbonne University in neuro-psychiatry in 1972 with her thesis devoted to the prevention of cortical artery thrombosis in rabbits by aspirin and PGE1.[1]
She trained at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.[1][2] Subsequently, she worked at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, before returning to Paris.[1] She became a Professor of Neurology at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in 1981.[1] She became head of neurology at the Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris in 1989, where she stayed until 1997.[1][2] She returned to Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in 1997, becoming the head of neurology there. She later became Emeritus Professor at the Paris-Diderot University.[1]
Research
Bousser is most well known for her role in the discovery of CADASIL, a hereditary form of stroke.[3] She researched the, then unnamed, condition for the first time in 1976, when a patient entered her clinic with signs of Binswanger's disease after suffering a stroke.[4] She found that the condition was hereditary after children of the initial patient presented similar symptoms. In 1993 she showed, together with Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve, that the condition was caused by a mutation on chromosome 19.[4] They subsequently named the condition CADASIL.[4][1]
Awards
Bousser is Commander of the Legion of Honor (2013) and Grand Officer of the Order of Merit (2018)[1]
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